OUR TEAM

Donald McCarthy, PhD

Dr. McCarthy holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry. He is a former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Atabai’s lab and a leading expert in the space. Dr. McCarthy has previously worked with multiple biotech VC’s and co-founded the biotech equity research firm AMP Biotech Research.

Piero Mendez

Mr. Mendez graduated with a B.S in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He has founded multiple startups and has experience with early stage financing in the healthcare industry.

Ted Daley, MBA

Mr. Daley is a seasoned biotechnology executive with over 10 years of experience in orphan drug development. Most recently, Mr. Daley was President and CBO of Raptor Pharmaceuticals where he helped build the company from a preclinical startup to a publicly traded company.

Kamran Atabai, MD

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Atabai is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and a foremost expert in mfge8 biology. Dr. Atabai is the inventor of the technology and has published extensively on the subject.